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Stephen Hunter (born March 25, 1946) is an American novelist, essayist, and Pulitzer Prize-winning film critic.
Stephen Hunter was born in Kansas City, Missouri, and grew up in Evanston, Illinois. His father was Charles Francis Hunter, a Northwestern University speech professor who was killed in 1975. His mother was Virginia Ricker Hunter, a writer of children's books. After graduating from Northwestern in 1968 with a degree in journalism, he was drafted for two years into the United States Army serving a ceremonial soldier in The Old Guard (3rd Infantry Regiment) in Washington, D.C., and later wrote for a military paper, the Pentagon News.
He joined The Baltimore Sun in 1971, working at the copy desk of the newspaper's Sunday edition for a decade. He became its film critic in 1982, a post he held until moving to The Washington Post in the same function in 1997. In 1998 Hunter won the American Society of Newspaper Editors Distinguished Writing Award in the criticism category, and in 2003 he received the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism.
Hunter's thriller novels include Point of Impact (filmed as Shooter), Black Light and Time to Hunt, which form a trilogy featuring Vietnam War veteran and sniper Bob "the Nailer" Swagger. The story of Bob Lee Swagger continued with The 47th Samurai (2007), Night of Thunder (2008), I, Sniper (2009) and Dead Zero (2010). The series has led to two spin-off series: Hot Springs, Pale Horse Coming, and Havana form another trilogy centered on Bob Swagger's father, Earl Swagger, while Soft Target (2011) focuses on Bob's long-unknown son, Ray Cruz.
Hunter has written three non-fiction books: Violent Screen: A Critic's 13 Years on the Front Lines of Movie Mayhem (1995), a collection of essays from his time at The Sun; American Gunfight (2005), an examination of the November 1, 1950 assassination attempt on Harry S. Truman at Blair House in Washington, D.C.; and Now Playing at the Valencia (2005), a collection of pieces from The Washington Post. Hunter has also written a number of non-film-related articles for The Post, including one on Afghanistan: "Dressed To Kill—From Kabul to Kandahar, It's Not Who You Are That Matters, but What You Shoot" (2001).
Hunter is a firearmss enthusiast, well-known in the gun community for the careful, correct, and in-depth firearm detail in many of his works of fiction. He himself shoots as a hobby, saying "many people don't understand, shooting a firearm is a sensual pleasure that's rewarding in and of itself."
In an interview with NPR on February 16, 2011, in relation to the shooting of Gabrielle Giffords and 18 others, Hunter defended the public availability of extended magazines and claimed it was not clear that the 33-round magazine used by the shooter, Jared Lee Loughner, played a part in the incident. He had previously stated in his op-ed piece in The Washington Post that extended magazines are particularly valuable for the self-defense of women and the elderly, who he said could use them effectively as an alternative to semi-automatic rifles or shotguns. He points out that "women generally don't care to put in the training needed to master [rifles and shotguns]. Nor can the elderly handle [long guns] adeptly."
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Bob Lee Swagger Series
Stephen Hunter - Point Of Impact (read by Beau Bridges)
Stephen Hunter - Black Light (read by Beau Bridges)
Stephen Hunter - Time To Hunt (read by Buck Schirner)
Stephen Hunter - The 47th Samurai (read by Buck Schirner)
Stephen Hunter - Night Of Thunder (read by Buck Schirner)
Stephen Hunter - I, Sniper (read by Buck Schirner)
Stephen Hunter - Dead Zero (read by Buck Schirner)
Stephen Hunter - The Third Bullet (read by Buck Schirner)
Stephen Hunter - Sniper's Honor (read by Buck Schirner)
Stephen Hunter - G-Man (read by R.C. Bray)
Stephen Hunter - Game Of Snipers (read by R.C. Bray)
Stephen Hunter - Targeted (read by Eric G. Dove)
Stephen Hunter - Front Sight (read by Eric G. Dove)
Earl Swagger Series
Stephen Hunter - Hot Springs (read by William Dufris)
Stephen Hunter - Pale Horse Coming (read by William Dufris)
Stephen Hunter - Havana (read by William Dufris)
Stephen Hunter - The Bullet Garden (read by Eric G. Dove)
Ray Cruz Series
Stephen Hunter - Dead Zero (read by Buck Schirner)
Stephen Hunter - Soft Target (read by Phil Gigante)
Non-Series
Stephen Hunter - Basil's War (read by James Cameron Stewart)
Stephen Hunter - Dirty White Boys (read by Eric G. Dove)
Stephen Hunter - The Master Sniper (read by Christopher Lane)
Stephen Hunter - I, Ripper (read by Michael Page)
Stephen Hunter - The Second Saladin (read by Dick Hill)
Stephen Hunter - Tapestry Of Spies (read by Simon Vance)
Stephen Hunter - American Gunfight (read by John H. Mayer)
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